How To Become A Learning Machine
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How To Become A Learning Machine

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Never Stop Learning

Learning is crucial in life as it helps you grow as an individual and achieve your goals . Thus, it is essential that individuals continue learning new skills and information throughout the entirety of their life. To a certain extent personality, physical attraction and wealth can only get you so far in your career. Therefore, you need a wide range of knowledge and experiences to excel in your field.

Maximize Your Learning

There are many ways you can learn a new skill or information. In order to maximize your learning it is crucial to not leave your learning up to one medium. For example if you are in university you are going to learn theory, without a focus on applying concepts learnt. Thus, in this aspect it is crucial to gain experiences and additional knowledge aside from the fundamentals and course curriculum. Of course in this example, you do utilize some course application but the focus is mostly on theory.

Learning Mediums & Styles

Additionally, you should devote some of your time to develop different learning styles and explore different education mediums. For example, if you love reading books than focus the majority of your time on reading but not all of it. It is still crucial for development and education to gain experiences, and learn from others. In addition, for specific skills you need to actually apply the skill in order to solidly the knowledge learnt. This can be true for everyday skills such as public speaking or guitar.

Better Your Future

Therefore, it is crucial to never stop learning and always make time in your schedule to expand your knowledge or learn something new. Also it doesn’t matter if you are working a full time job or you are currently in university or college. You should also be learning in different ways aside from your primary learning medium. So take full control of your schedule to allow more time for learning throughout the course of the day aside from your primary medium. This is due to the fact that although you are learning there are always other individuals learning more than you in a given day. Therefore, although you might feel that you have a stable career remember that someone else is learning twice as much in a given day and they could take your job in the future. So be prepared for this scenario by taking control of your daily schedule by learning more in a given day than other individuals in your field.

Learning Goals

In conclusion, it is important to never stop learning and always grow as a student. So make it part of your daily routine to learn something new before you go to bed every night. This simple goal will keep you engaged and motivated to learn new information. Therefore, don’t stop learning and schedule education into your routine, no matter how much you want to binge watch Netflix.

 

Are you finding it hard to schedule education into your life? Read my blog post about how to manage a busy schedule.

2 Comments

  1. Great advice. Learning new things, whether it is a new skill or enhancing an existing interest, is always satisfying. I just started Shopenhauer’s “The World as Will and Idea”

    1. Thanks for the comment! Yes, Gillian keep on growing your skills and adding positive habits to your life, it will pay off in the long run! Also, I have never heard of that book before, so I will definitely check it out. How is it so far?

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